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Clicky to hear one of The 3-D Invisibles’ - a silly Detroit monster band - silly monster songs on bandcamp, Mars Needs Women!
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How very prescient of them, considering who is leading the charge to colonize Mars… I don’t envision a lot of women volunteering to go…
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Love love that movie.
Nice shots too!
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Thank you.
I’m almost certain that no one planted this papaya tree as the orchard is on the other side of the parking lot. I bet someone was eating a papaya (maybe a tanager) and dropped some seeds on the ground.
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It transported me back to 1987. My brother and I were watching TV, waiting for our favorite music videos when this song came out of nowhere. For our pre-teen minds it was a shock. Ok, it was the 1980’s and we were very gullible.
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For example, this clip was scary and a lot provocative. Now I can only smile.
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When I was a kid I was terrified of Herbie Hancok’s Rock-it
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Islamic Art exhibition? I remember learning that traditionally, Islamic artists were forbidden from depicting people (but I can’t remember why).
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The sun on the exhaust from the university heating plant was quite pretty this morning. Outside air temp at the time of this pic was around -30C
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You’re welcome!
(Same directors)
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Yes, that one’s extra creepy. Eep!
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I’m sorry I’m not mocking your childhood trauma but that’s hilarious
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It depends on the culture (there has never been an Islamic culture).
The general idea is that Allah made living things, and it is a sin to abrogate that to yourself by recreating that even in pictorial form.
But that’s not in the Qur’an, that’s in a Hadith, and one that’s interpreted in all sorts of ways. Some will depict anything except humans. Some will not depict any living thing, and rely on text and abstract. Some will just draw anything because they don’t think that’s what the rule says. (Look, e.g., at Indian Mughal art: Human figures everywhere. The Persians like depicting humans too.)
About the only actual rule against depicting a person is, IIUC, on depicting Muhammed himself. (Especially his face.) He’s considered too holy to put on the page. At most, you might see his hand entering the frame, a backshot, or a silhouette.
Yes, it made the cinematography of his biopic awkward.
Note, there was a tradition of Aniconism in some Jewish traditions as well throughout the Middle Ages. They also came up with ingenious workarounds.
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